"Elected officials and community members rallied against the upcoming reality show “Brooklyn 11223″ this afternoon, lambasting the show as demeaning to women and calling on the Oxygen network to take it off the air.

Councilman Vinnie Gentile, who organized the event, told The Politicker the show “hit such a nerve in Bay Ridge and we had such a reaction from the locals that they wanted an avenue, a way, to speak out.”

The question begs, What Vincent Gentile really meant to say was...

"I called up some people from some groups which I fund with taxpayer cold-cash, and some democrook, I mean Democrat friends of mine who have nothing else to do, and I decided hey let's see if I can get a photo-op out of this it will probably distract people from how I have done nothing for the locals in the state senate or the city council."

"And speak out they did. Carlo Scissura, representing Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, took the largest broadside to the network for hosting the show.

“What amazes me is the hypocrisy of this network. This is a network that brands itself as looking out for the interests of women, and yet they do something that completely disparages women, particularly Italian-American women,” he said, before calling for the community to rise up. “If the show’s filming in one of the restaurants, stop going there, period. If the show’s coming out here and they’re wrecking the streets or taking up parking spots, call the police.”

The question begs, This reform minded commentator will let the public decide on whether some poor produced, flash in the pan reality show is "racist" or "disparaging" Italian-American women.

"Shortly before the June 1988 release of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy did some alarming interviews in London. Quotable quotes like "If the Palestinians took up arms, went into Israel and killed all the Jews, it'd be alright"

"Until May 22, when the Reverend Moon's ultraconservative D.C. daily The Washington Times published a one-on-one interview between Professor Griff and black reporter David Mills.

Griff had made on a TV interview a month before--"I think that's why they call it `jewelry,' because the Jews in South Africa: Griff opined that "the majority of them [i.e., Jews]" are responsible for "the majority of the wickedness that goes on across the globe." He dared Jews to send "their faggot little hit men" after him, raved about how "the Jews finance these experiments on AIDS with black people in South Africa.

Chuck D declined to dissociate himself from his brother. As Mills recounted a later interview: "So as Chuck D sees it, true Jews aren't responsible for the world's wickedness".

"Chuck D: That comes directly from how and when we grew up. We came up in the 1960s. Political and cultural groups like the Black Panthers, and the Nation of Islam were reference points. Our parents brought the work of these groups to our attention, and it was educational and inspiring."